Title

Age Readers

Problem Scenario

Broad Question

Does age affect the time it takes to read out loud?

Specific Question

When people of different age groups all read the same page of a book out loud, will the time it takes to read the whole page be different?

Hypothesis

I think the kids will read faster than the adults.

Graph of Hypothesis

Variables

Independent Variable: Age

Dependent Variable: Time

Variables That Need To Be Controlled: Books/Reading

Vocabulary List That Needs Explanation

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General Plan

To gather two different age groups, each group with six people (three girls, three boys) and then make each person read aloud a page from a book. Every person will read the same page. I will time each person and calculate the average time for all the boys of the age group, and all the girls.

Potential Problems And Solutions

I wouldn't be able to find enough test subjects

Safety Or Environmental Concerns

There would not be any safety or environmental concerns

Experimental Design

(add the correct headings from the experimental design page before beginning)

What is your experimental unit?

Time

Number Of Trials:

I will repeat this experiment 18 times

Number Of Subjects In Each trial:

One person will be doing the trial and each person will do three trials.

Number of Observations:

Three observations per person.

When data will be collected

Looking for an actual date or dates here. This is requiring you to commit to [[#|your]] project.

Where will data be collected?:

In [[#|school]] as well as from family members.

Resources and Budget Table

Item	Number needed	Where I will get this	Cost
Books	3	My House	$0.00
Stopwatch/Timer	1	My House	$0.00

Detailed Procedure

1. Ask for permission to test each age group
2. Test some of my peers from [[#|class]]
3.Test grown ups whom I already have established.
4. Find some of my peers and calculate their averages
5. Compare the averages from each age group to see which age group has the fastest average time

Diagram

Photo List

I will take photos of the all three books I am using.

Time Line

2/18/13- I got all my materials together
2/26/13- I tested my first four kids (two boys and two girls)
3/25/12 - Finished Gathering [[#|Data]]

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Data Table

Boys Times/Results

Easy Book	Medium Book	Hard Book
1:14.5	1:51.7	2:29.2
0.58.8	1:48.5	1;59.4
1:44.6	2:57.0	3:41.4
1:13.1	2:04.5	2.42.3
1:27.8	2:03.9	2:50.8
1:00.1	1:50.6	2:25.2

Girls Times/Results

Easy Book	Medium Book	Hard Book
1:05.1	1:46.2	2:08.0
1:16.0	2:19.2	2:20.5
1:02.9	1:34.5	1:45.1
1:12.1	1:57.5	1:45.1
0.58.2	1:26.5	2:03.0
1:07.8	2:01.8	2:25.2

Men Times/Results

Easy Book	Medium Book	Hard Book
74.7	133.3	143
61.2	127.5	171.2
90.3	166	189.7
72.8	145.7	152.3
78.8	132.4	172.9
62.5	135.2	168.5

Women Times/Results

Easy Book	Medium Book	Hard Book
72.8	121.2	146.9
81	142.1	180.9
70.2	153.8	115.6
70.5	145.7	116.8
68.7	120.9	164
73.1	98.7	163

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Data Analysis

Graphs

Kids:
Book One:
How I Survived Middle School: Can You Get An "F" In Lunch?
Kids average results (graphed in seconds):

Adults average results (graphed in seconds):

Book Two:
Girlhearts
Kids average results (graphed in seconds):

Adult average results (graphed in seconds):
Book Three:

The Road Less Traveled

Kids average results (graphed in seconds):

Average adult times (graphed in seconds):

Results Overall:
The Road Less Traveled



Girlhearts


Can You Get An F In Lunch?

Photos

Results

During this experiment, I measured the amount of time it took for people of different genders and ages to read books of three different skill levels. When I tested my first group (which was my group of kids,) I sorted the kids out by boys and girls. I noticed here that the boys read much slower out loud than girls do. As seen on my graph, both boys and girls took the longest time reading a page of the third book, and the lest amount of time reading a page of the first book (as I hypothesized.) After I had finished testing, I noticed that in every category, the kids that I tested read faster than the adults.

Conclusion

I hypothesized that the kids would read faster than the adults in all of the categories. After reviewing all of my data and calculating averages, I can accept my hypothesis. I had chosen to hypothesize as I did because with all of the kids I'm testing still in school, they're sentence fluency is probably a little better than those of the adults I tested.

Discussion

Benefit to Community and/or Science

There is no benefit to the community or to science.

References

Abstract

To start my project, I tested 12 students by making them all read the same three pages from three different books of various skill levels. I wrote down all of the times in my notebook, the once I was done, I calculated all the averages and put the times into the graphs to see what gender read faster. After I made all of my graphs, I noticed that the adults times are very dramatically larger than those of the kids. Going with my hypothesis, the kids did read faster out loud in all skill levels.